Keep Inpatient Services at Nashville General Hospital at Meharry!

Reducing inpatient services means Nashville General will no longer be a teaching hospital staffed by the doctors and medical students of Meharry Medical College. This threatens the health and welfare of the very patients Nashville General overwhelmingly cares for — the poor and the underserved.

Letter to

Metro Councilmember at LargeTim Garrett

District 20 CouncilmemberBuddy Baker

District 19 CouncilmemberErica Gilmore

and 37 others

District 18 CouncilmemberBurkley Allen

District 17 CouncilmemberSandra Moore

District 16 CouncilmemberTony Tenpenny

District 15 CouncilmemberPhil Claiborne

District 13 CouncilmemberJosh Stites

District 12 CouncilmemberSteve Glover

District 21 CouncilmemberEdith Langster

District 22 CouncilmemberSheri Weiner

District 31 CouncilmemberFabian Bedne

District 30 CouncilmemberJason Potts

District 29 CouncilmemberKaren Johnson

District 28 CouncilmemberDuane Dominy

District 26 CouncilmemberChris Harmon

District 25 CouncilmemberSean McGuire

District 24 CouncilmemberJason Holleman

District 23 CouncilmemberEmily Evans

District 11 CouncilmemberDarren Jernigan

District 10 CouncilmemberDoug Pardue

Metro Councilmember at LargeRonnie Steine

Metro Councilmember at LargeMegan Barry

Nashville City GovernmentMayor Karl Dean

District 3 CouncilmemberWalter Hunt

District 34 CouncilmemberCarter Todd

District 33 CouncilmemberRoberet Duvall

District 27 CouncilmemberDavette Blalock

District 14 CouncilmemberJames Bruce Stanley

Metro Councilmember at LargeCharlie Tygard

Metro Councilmember at LargeJerry Maynard

District 9 CouncilmemberBill Pridemore

District 8 CouncilmemberKaren Bennett

District 7 CouncilmemberAnthony Davis

District 6 CouncilmemberPeter Westerholm

District 5 CouncilmemberScott Davis

District 4 CouncilmemberBrady Banks

District 2 CouncilmemberFrank Harrison

District 1 CouncilmemberLonnell Matthews

District 32 CouncilmemberJacobia Dowell

Keep Inpatient Services at Nashville General Hospital at Meharry!

Just as medical students at other teaching hospitals are trained to specialize in cardiac or cancer care, Meharry students are trained from day one to help patients forced to choose between paying for food and paying for medication.

They understand the physical toll that stress takes on the unemployed. They apply for research funding to bring innovative care and clinical trials to those who live in poverty. And Nashville General receives federal subsidies to help train these up-and-coming doctors.

Reducing inpatient services means Nashville General will no longer be a teaching hospital staffed by the doctors and medical students of Meharry Medical College. This threatens the health and welfare of the very patients Nashville General overwhelmingly cares for — the poor and the underserved.

Nashville desperately needs this level of specialized care for its most vulnerable citizens. Of the 75,000 people discharged from hospitals in Davidson County last year, 8 percent were indigent or self-pay. Yet 31 percent of the discharges at Nashville General were indigent or self-pay, and the rest were overwhelmingly Medicaid recipients. If the capacity of Nashville General is decreased, these patients will be forced to go elsewhere or be without care completely.